I wish I owned a TV.
This sounds like an excellent program. Yr 12, your homework is: watch TV!
Wednesdays, 9m, The Gruen Transfer.
Can someone tape it for me? Publish Post
Showing posts with label Year 12. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year 12. Show all posts
Monday, 26 May 2008
Friday, 25 April 2008
Rebranding Shakespeare
It's nothing new. Tate did it, and they loved it. "Kiss Me Kate" is still one of my fave movies. But the way this guy is doing it sounds interesting.
And why feel guilty for laughing? The best comedians use knowledge you already have.
And why feel guilty for laughing? The best comedians use knowledge you already have.
Friday, 28 March 2008
Gaiman is teh clever
Here, as promised, is the vid footage of Neil Gaiman reading his short story 'Orange'.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
Friday, 21 December 2007
Read more books!
Hey guys
Welcome to your holidays. I hope you get lots of rest, and have many good adventures.
I've been promising a wide reading list for a while, and here is a kinda list...I feel like it will never be complete, so I would suggest using it as a guide. The idea is to get you reading outside the square, or outside your normal comfort zone.
Films
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Dark City
Citien Kane
Alice in Wonderland (Disney cartoon)
Brazil
Animal Farm (cartoon)
Any Marx Bros Film - the best is A Night at the Opera
Harry Potter - all of them
Anything and everything by Tim Burton
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Anything by Baz Luhrmann
Shrek
Any Monty Python
Being John Malkovich
Delicatessan or City of Lost Children (French)
Butterfly Effect
Any Miyazaki film - Spirited Away, My Friend Totoro, etc.
Novels and Stuff
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catch 22
Anything by Evelyn Waugh
A Herman Hesse, Gunter Grass, Jean-Paul Sarte, or any other European writer from between 1900 and 1950
Animal Farm, or 1984
All Harry Potter
Anything by Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman
Anything by Mike Morre
Everything by Roald Dahl
Tolkien
Australian authors - Henry Lawson, Patrick White, Tim winton, Peter Carey, John Marsden, Ruth Park, Nadia Wheatley
Anything, and everything else you can! The most important things is that you fill your mind, your imagination with the ideas of others, to know what is possible in your own writing, and ultimately the world!
Have fun!
Welcome to your holidays. I hope you get lots of rest, and have many good adventures.
I've been promising a wide reading list for a while, and here is a kinda list...I feel like it will never be complete, so I would suggest using it as a guide. The idea is to get you reading outside the square, or outside your normal comfort zone.
Films
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Dark City
Citien Kane
Alice in Wonderland (Disney cartoon)
Brazil
Animal Farm (cartoon)
Any Marx Bros Film - the best is A Night at the Opera
Harry Potter - all of them
Anything and everything by Tim Burton
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Anything by Baz Luhrmann
Shrek
Any Monty Python
Being John Malkovich
Delicatessan or City of Lost Children (French)
Butterfly Effect
Any Miyazaki film - Spirited Away, My Friend Totoro, etc.
Novels and Stuff
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catch 22
Anything by Evelyn Waugh
A Herman Hesse, Gunter Grass, Jean-Paul Sarte, or any other European writer from between 1900 and 1950
Animal Farm, or 1984
All Harry Potter
Anything by Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman
Anything by Mike Morre
Everything by Roald Dahl
Tolkien
Australian authors - Henry Lawson, Patrick White, Tim winton, Peter Carey, John Marsden, Ruth Park, Nadia Wheatley
Anything, and everything else you can! The most important things is that you fill your mind, your imagination with the ideas of others, to know what is possible in your own writing, and ultimately the world!
Have fun!
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
Kubla Kahn
Some images from the web.
Mr. Kubla
Painting hinting at the Romantic idea of the Sublime - Caverns mesurelss to man.
A statlely pleasure dome.
Monday, 22 October 2007
Friday, 19 October 2007
Monday, 13 August 2007
Paper One Help
My mind is turing to revision already, and Year 12 aren't even back from exams yet.
Though if you're interested, here's some reading for you:
I thought this was a very useful summary of what you can expect from Paper 1, Section I. Read all of it!
And this is a fabulous explanation of the differences between a dominant and resistant reading of "Journeys Over Land and Sea", with a reference to 'Mariner'
Though if you're interested, here's some reading for you:
I thought this was a very useful summary of what you can expect from Paper 1, Section I. Read all of it!
And this is a fabulous explanation of the differences between a dominant and resistant reading of "Journeys Over Land and Sea", with a reference to 'Mariner'
Monday, 6 August 2007
Austen's sex and sensibility
A fantastic four-page feature article on the endurance of Austen's popularity, despite the lack of modern topics of interest.
Read it for its ideas for Module A, and consider it's FA elements as you do!
Good luck today, guys.
Miss
Read it for its ideas for Module A, and consider it's FA elements as you do!
Good luck today, guys.
Miss
Wednesday, 1 August 2007
Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Coleridge Revision
Doing some Coleridge revision yesterday, I was reminded of this little funny I found last year.
Saturday, 21 July 2007
Send in the Clowns
Lisa Prior thinks we'd rather be watching comedians tell us the news, not journos.
Year12, wanna come up with a reason why?
Seems like a logical conclusion to me. At least comedians like The Chaser boys tell us they're joking right from the start. Journos tell us they're serious. What's more entertaining?
Year12, wanna come up with a reason why?
Seems like a logical conclusion to me. At least comedians like The Chaser boys tell us they're joking right from the start. Journos tell us they're serious. What's more entertaining?
Friday, 20 July 2007
Model Feature Article
After reading a couple of draft FAs I've realised that we've given you a very tricky task. After 2 years of telling you that techniques are important, we want you to write a FA where a detailed analysis of techniques has no place.
Talk about rude.
So I thought I'd try it myself.
I sat for a little more than an hour to write this first part of my FA. It's not good, and it's not the answer, it's just the way I would begin to tackle it, given an hour. There are many good answers possible for this question. The best thing to remember is to take on the persona of a journo - be ruthless, cut-throat, opinionated and determined. You need to keep your reader's attention for the enterity of your article - don't let them get bored or they will flick over to the nudie shots of Posh and Becks. Which, granted, might be more entertaining, but far less educational. Teach your audience something, make them think about the world they live in in a new light.
Don't forget that the question asks for related TEXTS (ie. more than one).
Also, the HSC Online site reminded me that you should try and differentiate between the two Frontlines. For the satire produced by Sitch et al, underline (or italizise) the title. If you are talking about the current affairs show hosted by Mike Moore, you should put inverted commas around it, as it is a smaller text within a text.
This is just a draft. Be kind.
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When representation becomes misrepresentation:
Who can we turn to for the truth?
The information age has truly begun. Yesterday, Blogger registered its 1 000 000th user. The internet-based computer game WoW has been part of court cases and probably broken up more relationships than (insert stupid comparison here). Surveys of Australians’ leisure time shows that while over 10 hours a week is spent in front of the television in the average home, the internet steals us away for an average of 20 hours a week. The one hour a week we used to spend on religion has now shrunk to a big fat zero, and I can guarantee that there is no time left in the working week for personal reflection.
We make usernames, profiles and icons to show the world who we are but what is the truth? We tell people what we want them to believe. Is DaisyBell99 really an 18 year old girl from Texas? Or is some 50 year old pervert taking advantage of the internet’s anonymity and your cluelessness?
When we do this as individuals, we’re only misrepresenting ourselves, and lying to a handful of people.
But what about the media giants, who lie to us on a daily basis? Who tell us what’s important, who deliver the cold, hard facts – are they to be trusted?
In the 1990s, a group of comedians brought the faults of the media to the attention of millions of Australian viewers. Frontline’s satirical expose of a fictional current affairs television show helped audiences to understand that ratings, money, public image and selfishness are often what drive news stories. The truth is often left behind.
The satire uses hand-held cameras and a documentary style to bring the audience into the very realistic episodes. We see inside private meetings, personal chats and reporter’s interviews. We also get the opportunity to view parts of the finished product, ‘Frontline’
The contrast between the two is startling. Reporters snark and snarl at each other in the office, but smile and swap pleasantries on air.
As a mindless, slack-jawed viewer of the idiot box, what are we supposed to believe?
The media’s tricks of production are shown through the documentary. In ‘Add Sex and Stir’, reporter Brooke Vandenburg changes the whole focus of an interview by rerecording a question, and tapping her ‘noddies’. The truth behind the interview becomes distorted, manipulated though the editing process, and without the interviewee’s knowledge. Not only is this entirely unethical, but it causes the audience to question the integrity and motivations behind real current affairs.
Misrepresentation of the sports woman’s case is further emphasised through a dramatization of the event – a technique frequently used by current affair shows for the sake of all-important visuals.
The sinister music used in this dramatization helps to stress Vandenburg’s point – this news story is all about sex...
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Talk about rude.
So I thought I'd try it myself.
I sat for a little more than an hour to write this first part of my FA. It's not good, and it's not the answer, it's just the way I would begin to tackle it, given an hour. There are many good answers possible for this question. The best thing to remember is to take on the persona of a journo - be ruthless, cut-throat, opinionated and determined. You need to keep your reader's attention for the enterity of your article - don't let them get bored or they will flick over to the nudie shots of Posh and Becks. Which, granted, might be more entertaining, but far less educational. Teach your audience something, make them think about the world they live in in a new light.
Don't forget that the question asks for related TEXTS (ie. more than one).
Also, the HSC Online site reminded me that you should try and differentiate between the two Frontlines. For the satire produced by Sitch et al, underline (or italizise) the title. If you are talking about the current affairs show hosted by Mike Moore, you should put inverted commas around it, as it is a smaller text within a text.
This is just a draft. Be kind.
-----------------------------
When representation becomes misrepresentation:
Who can we turn to for the truth?
The information age has truly begun. Yesterday, Blogger registered its 1 000 000th user. The internet-based computer game WoW has been part of court cases and probably broken up more relationships than (insert stupid comparison here). Surveys of Australians’ leisure time shows that while over 10 hours a week is spent in front of the television in the average home, the internet steals us away for an average of 20 hours a week. The one hour a week we used to spend on religion has now shrunk to a big fat zero, and I can guarantee that there is no time left in the working week for personal reflection.
We make usernames, profiles and icons to show the world who we are but what is the truth? We tell people what we want them to believe. Is DaisyBell99 really an 18 year old girl from Texas? Or is some 50 year old pervert taking advantage of the internet’s anonymity and your cluelessness?
When we do this as individuals, we’re only misrepresenting ourselves, and lying to a handful of people.
But what about the media giants, who lie to us on a daily basis? Who tell us what’s important, who deliver the cold, hard facts – are they to be trusted?
In the 1990s, a group of comedians brought the faults of the media to the attention of millions of Australian viewers. Frontline’s satirical expose of a fictional current affairs television show helped audiences to understand that ratings, money, public image and selfishness are often what drive news stories. The truth is often left behind.
The satire uses hand-held cameras and a documentary style to bring the audience into the very realistic episodes. We see inside private meetings, personal chats and reporter’s interviews. We also get the opportunity to view parts of the finished product, ‘Frontline’
The contrast between the two is startling. Reporters snark and snarl at each other in the office, but smile and swap pleasantries on air.
As a mindless, slack-jawed viewer of the idiot box, what are we supposed to believe?
The media’s tricks of production are shown through the documentary. In ‘Add Sex and Stir’, reporter Brooke Vandenburg changes the whole focus of an interview by rerecording a question, and tapping her ‘noddies’. The truth behind the interview becomes distorted, manipulated though the editing process, and without the interviewee’s knowledge. Not only is this entirely unethical, but it causes the audience to question the integrity and motivations behind real current affairs.
Misrepresentation of the sports woman’s case is further emphasised through a dramatization of the event – a technique frequently used by current affair shows for the sake of all-important visuals.
The sinister music used in this dramatization helps to stress Vandenburg’s point – this news story is all about sex...
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007
HSC Heckler
There's been lots of Heckler articles written by HSC students lately - I think they might be feeling a bit pressured, or something. Don't know why.
This one made me smile - a nice piece of writing.
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Please look upon this small indulgence as an HSC task
Vicki Copeman
June 27, 2007
DEAR Higher School Certificate,
As I write this, I feel guilty. I know I could, and should - judging by recent marks - be studying for assessments and exams (do they ever end?), but I find myself here, writing away my guilt (at least until I press SEND).
Our relationship over the past nine months has been tempestuous, and I couldn't account for one student of yours who is happy with you. As much as I know you will contribute to getting me into university (hopefully) and maybe scoring me a job in the big bad world one day, I'd really like you to put on the brakes for a few weeks and remind me it's OK to put my feet up and relax sometimes.
I'm often reminded by well-meaning adults that the HSC is not a sprint but a marathon. Blame my genes, but I'm not cut out for long-distance running.
I'm grateful to be one of the luckiest young women in the world, who can benefit from the gift of an education; however, the constant battery of assessment tasks, examinations, reports, parent-teacher interviews - need I continue? - does little to make me appreciate my final year of school.
My enjoyment of fine publications such as the Herald (or even Who Weekly) has been put on the back burner. I feel guilt overwhelm me every time I reach for said texts instead of set texts. There's only so much Huxley, Shakespeare and Coleridge I can take before I see a blur of letters that resemble H, S and C.
It appears that I'm not the only 2007 HSC student looking for inventive ways to procrastinate: Heckler has already featured disgruntled students feeling the pressure; however, apparently notenough pressure to propel us to study as opposed to grumpily vent our feelings to the only source we feel will listen. I, like previous writers, I presume, naturally figure this is good practice for the many English essays we will (attempt to) write in the next five months, and therefore count the minutes spent creating this as valuable study time.
I hope, for my and the rest of the class of 2007's sake, that this guilty feeling will exponentially (thank you, mathematics) increase our feeling of joy and satisfaction come early November.
Now, after almost half an hour of essay-writing skills put into practice, my (non-existent) study timetable is informing me that a well-earned break of 15 minutes is due. In these 15 minutes I will attempt to watch Grey's Anatomy on fast-forward, or perhaps have a quick conversation with my family while drinking my dinner (it's the fastest way).
Yours (for eternity, it seems),
Vicki Copeman
http://www.smh.com.au/news/heckler/please-look-upon-this-small-indulgence-as-an-hsc-task/2007/06/26/1182623911400.html
This one made me smile - a nice piece of writing.
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Please look upon this small indulgence as an HSC task
Vicki Copeman
June 27, 2007
DEAR Higher School Certificate,
As I write this, I feel guilty. I know I could, and should - judging by recent marks - be studying for assessments and exams (do they ever end?), but I find myself here, writing away my guilt (at least until I press SEND).
Our relationship over the past nine months has been tempestuous, and I couldn't account for one student of yours who is happy with you. As much as I know you will contribute to getting me into university (hopefully) and maybe scoring me a job in the big bad world one day, I'd really like you to put on the brakes for a few weeks and remind me it's OK to put my feet up and relax sometimes.
I'm often reminded by well-meaning adults that the HSC is not a sprint but a marathon. Blame my genes, but I'm not cut out for long-distance running.
I'm grateful to be one of the luckiest young women in the world, who can benefit from the gift of an education; however, the constant battery of assessment tasks, examinations, reports, parent-teacher interviews - need I continue? - does little to make me appreciate my final year of school.
My enjoyment of fine publications such as the Herald (or even Who Weekly) has been put on the back burner. I feel guilt overwhelm me every time I reach for said texts instead of set texts. There's only so much Huxley, Shakespeare and Coleridge I can take before I see a blur of letters that resemble H, S and C.
It appears that I'm not the only 2007 HSC student looking for inventive ways to procrastinate: Heckler has already featured disgruntled students feeling the pressure; however, apparently notenough pressure to propel us to study as opposed to grumpily vent our feelings to the only source we feel will listen. I, like previous writers, I presume, naturally figure this is good practice for the many English essays we will (attempt to) write in the next five months, and therefore count the minutes spent creating this as valuable study time.
I hope, for my and the rest of the class of 2007's sake, that this guilty feeling will exponentially (thank you, mathematics) increase our feeling of joy and satisfaction come early November.
Now, after almost half an hour of essay-writing skills put into practice, my (non-existent) study timetable is informing me that a well-earned break of 15 minutes is due. In these 15 minutes I will attempt to watch Grey's Anatomy on fast-forward, or perhaps have a quick conversation with my family while drinking my dinner (it's the fastest way).
Yours (for eternity, it seems),
Vicki Copeman
http://www.smh.com.au/news/heckler/please-look-upon-this-small-indulgence-as-an-hsc-task/2007/06/26/1182623911400.html
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Something to look forward to!
The Chaser guys (well, one of them) seem to be starting a new website!
The SMH reports that it knows very little.
Must be another slow news day!
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/chaser-mans-manic-attack/2007/06/19/1182019102580.html
The SMH reports that it knows very little.
Must be another slow news day!
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/chaser-mans-manic-attack/2007/06/19/1182019102580.html
Friday, 15 June 2007
The Chaser
The Chaser's web page is way-cool.
http://www.chaser.com.au/
This article is also way cool.
http://www.chaser.com.au/content/view/3410/72/
http://www.chaser.com.au/
This article is also way cool.
http://www.chaser.com.au/content/view/3410/72/
Monday, 4 June 2007
Tuesday, 29 May 2007
SMH article: do you agree?
This article in the SMH in 2004 covers some public concern over the HSC syllabus.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/27/1096137168782.html?from=moreStories
Do you agree with John Bell? Is it ridiculous to make a Marxist reading of the play, seeing as Shakespeare had never heard of Marx?
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/27/1096137168782.html?from=moreStories
Do you agree with John Bell? Is it ridiculous to make a Marxist reading of the play, seeing as Shakespeare had never heard of Marx?
Monday, 28 May 2007
Funny AC Bradley poem
I found this while looking for a bit of background info on Bradley at Wikipedia:
I dreamt last night that Shakespeare’s Ghost
Sat for a civil service post.
The English paper for that year
Had several questions on King Lear
Which Shakespeare answered very badly
Because he hadn’t read his Bradley.
(Hawkes, 1986 as cited in Taylor 2001: 40)
You can read more about how great Bradley was here.
I dreamt last night that Shakespeare’s Ghost
Sat for a civil service post.
The English paper for that year
Had several questions on King Lear
Which Shakespeare answered very badly
Because he hadn’t read his Bradley.
(Hawkes, 1986 as cited in Taylor 2001: 40)
You can read more about how great Bradley was here.
Thursday, 24 May 2007
More Lear reviews
Continuing from the last post.
Kevin Kline as Lear? I see him as being too young - to me he is a comedic actor, not a figure of pity.
1. What are the two differeing ways to play the opening scene? Which does this review prefer? Which do you prefer and why?
2. "A little humor and some pockets of lucidity help speed the story’s route into the abyss, of course." Is this something you agree with? Did you like the humour in the Bondi production?
Germaine Greer's review of RSC's Lear is very well written.
1. Where do you think Lear (McKellen) drops his trousers? Why that scene? What might a naked Lear add to the play?
2. Is this a feminist reading of the play? why?
The idea behind reading all these reviews is so that you can consider the many different interpretations, productions, of the play. Once you have a good idea of the many ways is can be performed, you can assume a well-rounded opinion of your own.
And yes, Dr. Who was very good.
Kevin Kline as Lear? I see him as being too young - to me he is a comedic actor, not a figure of pity.
1. What are the two differeing ways to play the opening scene? Which does this review prefer? Which do you prefer and why?
2. "A little humor and some pockets of lucidity help speed the story’s route into the abyss, of course." Is this something you agree with? Did you like the humour in the Bondi production?
Germaine Greer's review of RSC's Lear is very well written.
1. Where do you think Lear (McKellen) drops his trousers? Why that scene? What might a naked Lear add to the play?
2. Is this a feminist reading of the play? why?
The idea behind reading all these reviews is so that you can consider the many different interpretations, productions, of the play. Once you have a good idea of the many ways is can be performed, you can assume a well-rounded opinion of your own.
And yes, Dr. Who was very good.
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